New England's glacial upland soils provide major groundwater storage reservoir
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 14:01
in Earth & Climate
A recent study of natural groundwater storage reservoirs in New England by hydrologist David Boutt at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that upland aquifer systems dominated by thin deposits of surface till - a jumbled, unsorted material deposited by glaciers - make up about 70 percent of the active and dynamic storage for the region.